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Toyota believes a car company be a vehicle for change, a change towards greening cars and electricity production.

The company said its Kentucky plant will soon be partially powered by green electricity.

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, Inc. has teamed up with Waste Services of the Bluegrass to generate power from local landfill waste, marking the region’s first business to business landfill gas to energy initiative.

Toyota said it estimates the locally-generated landfill gas will supply enough power each year for the production of 10,000 vehicles.

Toyota explained as solid waste naturally breaks down in a landfill, it creates gas. A network of wells at the landfill will collect and prepare this gas, which will be used to fuel generators for electricity. Underground transmission lines will then carry the electricity to Toyota’s manufacturing plant, located a few miles south of the landfill.

Construction begins in April and is expected to be complete by early 2015, continued Toyota. Once up and running, the system will generate one megawatt of electricity per hour, or about what it takes to power 800 homes, based on average consumption in the U.S. Additionally, landfill greenhouse gas emissions will be cut by as much as 90 percent, which adds up to better air quality for the local community.

“As a corporate citizen of central Kentucky, we are committed to smarter and better ways of doing business to enhance our community and environment,” said Todd Skaggs, CEO of Waste Services of the Bluegrass. “We look forward to being a partner in Toyota’s sustainability efforts.”

This isn’t Toyota’s first non-traditional approach to environmental stewardship. The Kentucky plant has been a “zero-landfill” facility since 2006. This means waste generated at the plant gets repurposed instead of getting rejected.

Toyota said some of the waste goes into a composter, located on the plant’s 1300-acre campus. The compost generated is then used to fertilize an on-site garden, which has supplied more than 11,000 pounds of produce, or the weight equivalent of 3.5 Camrys, to a local food bank.